Photo Attribution
Original Image: "Fish Lips"
By: Jurvetson
Released under an Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License
I believe using photos in the classroom is very important. Throughout my schooling I have always been a person who learns better with pictures, charts, and other visual aids. I feel as if a picture says so many things that a teacher could never be able to explain to his/her students. Speaking of the picture posted above, their are many children who will never get to experience the ocean or what a school of fish is. This picture would be able to give those children the necessary information for them to understand this concept better, without actually having to have them go to an ocean or lake to see it for themselves. I think pictures are an awesome way to help children learn and I am definitely going to use them in my own teachings.
I completely agree that pictures are a vital part to a classroom. Not only do they help students visually “see” parts of the world they might never get the opportunity to visit like you mentioned, but they can also provide us teachers with a great way to save a lot of money on visual aids we would have to go out and buy or make ourselves!
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Good thinking on the money issue. If there is one thing I remember from my grade school years it was my teachers talking about how much money they spend on supplies becuase the schools never give them enough. Definitely not looking forward to that!
ReplyDeleteI am also a very visual learner, and rely on images or other visuals to better understand concepts. Along with that, the deaf and hard of hearing students we have worked with and those that we will work with in the future are the same way. I think that it is great that we are learning about so many different technologies through CEP 416, such as Flickr, Google docs-Google presentations, VoiceThread and SlideShare to name a few, that can help us to integrate visuals into the classroom.
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